Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-06
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OF THE
OLD FAIR GROUND PROPERTY.
One III vndred and Seventy.two
Desirable Lots ON Wheei.
ing Island.

TN PURSUANCE or A DEGREE OF THE
Circuit Court OF Ohio county, W. Va entered
on the III day Of June, 1887, In the case OF ogle'
bay and Others. against Brown and Others, the
undersigned special commissioners VIII, on
MONDAY. OCTOBER 81. 1887,
beginning at 9 O'Clock a m, sell at public anc'
ton. nj the front door ofthe Court House OF Ohio
county, West Virginia, the tract oil land belong
ing To- the Northwest Virginia Agricultural SO
ciety, knoSn a. The old FAIR GROUND
PROPERTY" situated Oh Wheeling Island, north
Of Zane street, and west OF North Huron street,
and containing, when measured 10 the top OF the
liver bank, twenty-five and Twelve hundredths
acres. The tract extends, and will be sold, fully
to the river.
Under authority of raid decree the said com
miSSioners have caused the property 10 be dirld.
cd into arCcls. and have laid of streets and
alleys through the same. A plat, showing the
arrangement Of blocks, lots, streets and alleys,
has been prepared, and may be seen al the once
of Gcorg, Hook, Clerk of the County Court OF
Ohio county. Printed copies OF said plat may,
on and after October LIST, he had OF the under
sigued.
The property will flint be offered as a whole,
afterwards in blocks, and then In lots, as shown
on the plat, and will be sold In whichever way
may appear the most Advantageous. When OF.
lered In blocks. the blocks numbered five and
six may be offered together as one parcel. when
offered in lots, two contiguous lots may he offered
together, if bidders ~ desire, II THE whole tract
be sold TO one purchaser, the streets, alleys and
lots NAV be disfcgardcd He, I'm such case, be.
comes the purchaser Of the streets and alleys
within the boundaries Of the tract.
Ii any block be sold separately 10 one pur'
chaser, he. of course, Tay Disregard the lot lines
within the block, but alley must be opened. IL
the blocks numbered five and six be sold to
gett or 10 one purchaser, the street running De
tween said blocks, AM the alley runping through
block five, may be disrcgaried, at the election OF
such purchaser. To be made and declared At the
time o the purchase. II he 30 elect 10 disregard
(spd close) said street and alley, then the south
end of said street " here II passes through block
seven. fronting on Zane street, and extending
north 10 the alley parallel with Zane street, Will
be sold as Il lot or lots.
There ARE on said Fair Ground tract more than
two hundred and tbi ty tr. es, Of which about
the greater part are Maple. OF said trees are
well grown, psobably more than hall OF them
having trunks n foot or more In diameter.
TERMS OF SALE-Fach PURCHASER 10 pay IN
hand one third. at least Of his purchase money,
and ~ much more thereof ~ he may choose, and
the residue, If any, in two equal instruments,
bearing interest from the day OF sale, and pay
able respectively. In one and two years theIcaf'
ter. the deferred payments TO be secured by
notes with good personal security. But u any
pu' chaser pay in hand one hall, or more, OF his
purchase money, his notes for the deferred install
ments oftheSame shall he taken without personal
security. IN every case, however, the title must
be- retained as security until payment In full.
GEORGE II CALDWELL,
WIN. ERsKINE,
Special Commissioner.
certify that bond has been given By said
Special commissioners, Us required by said de
cree. JOHN W.
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